AdamGibson

I'm playing Shinobi AoV right now, and it's very good. Great even. The thing I don't understand is how people expect these properties to remain static forever. Strider has been a meteoidvania and an action platformer multiple times over multiple generations and nobody cried about it. Ninja Gaiden has been a belt-scrolling beat-em-up, a precision platformer and a character action game and somehow that's fine too. But Shinobi? Noooooo.
If you believe that games are art, know that stagnation is the death of the artist. According to the above article, lizardcube tried to make a "traditional" Shinobi game and it was awful. Instead they made an excellent search action game that received an 87 on metacritic. Which would you rather have?

I spent so much time on the xbla vo:ot back in the day! I really hope that virtual on is one of the Sega series that gets a revival, but I guess I'd settle for virtual on customization items in the new Virtua fighter

Between this, Concord, Redfall and a couple other recent debacles, I now completely understand why there needs to be an ***** project manager in there checking in and holding people accountable. Simply because someone is a legend or has created some amazing media in the past doesn't mean you can just let them do whatever they want without any sort of oversight. That's how you end up with the videogames equivalent of George R.R. Martin, guys who have the chops but never actually make it to the finish line.

If the forums are going to be open until December, can't anyone who cares just back up all of the files before then? I guess I just don't understand how the community is going to lose a "massive chunk of human-made content" in this case.

I really love these "what if" projects, it's so interesting to see what the outer limits of old hardware might have been.

I hope we get to look for sailors

That song made me smile on the ride to work

I'd really prefer to see the 360 release again rather than a sequel or something like that, but I do wonder what lizard cube has been up to lately...

I would commit a felony for anything guardian heroes.

It's nice that the code is being published and I'm glad that the project is nearing completion, but it's a shame that the dev had to deal with so much negativity.

Hate to say it, but I see where the devs are coming from. Consider the Daytona games for example. Would enough people really show up for it to make financial sense to include everything that needs to be in a stand-alone release like that? Online play, servers, leaderboards, Q&A, passing certification, etc. etc.
If Sega decided to just poop out a straight no-frills, unoptimized single-player only port of the arcade, it would only hurt their reputation with the exact same groups that are asking for a thing like that. The fact that they're Yakuza minigames is the only reason some of these games could ever see the light of day, no matter how much I personally would love to see golden axe: revenge of death adder come to console.

I owned this awful game in 1994 on Sega CD! Very glad to see it preserved though

I didn't understand what the problem was just from the screenshots, but the video actually made my stomach churn the same way as accidentally coming across a video of someone dying. In a way, that's exactly what I witnessed. The death of Panzer Dragoon. I want to sue forever entertainment.

the record data would need to be stored on a server somewhere and the original server must have been retired long ago, so I assume these must be new records

Please let me know if this has online play and rollback netcode, I want to play this with my brother who lives overseas!

EA was on another level back then! It's a shame what they eventually became.